LOOKING FORWARD TO 2016 BRINGING US A FULL NEST AT LOCH GARTEN WITH EJ AND ODIN AT THE HELM.
Willow, your weather sounds like you could use a nice muga soup, too. Some of my favorite: canned green pea soup, canned tomato bisque, lobster bisque with sherry from the deli and chicken noodle soup of any kind - plain old Campbell CN or fancier brands semi-homemade with added ingredients OR homemade from scratch. My husband was the champion CN soup maker in our family. Delicious! Then of course my homemade chili or bean soup. Haven't made either yet this winter. Now that I think of it, must do so soon. I will freeze most of each and one ot will last me for months.
Good morning all. A fabulous dawn this morning promising a sunny day but windy just perfect. Keith thankyou for the reminder to kayleighs blog. Fantastic news that they have spotted 32(11) and hopefully will see his partner 30(05) Maybe they might get really lucky and spot S1, or S2 or S3 that would be brilliant :) but seeing any is a gift! Shes spoiling us with her detailed and inspiring blogs :)
June no sleet yet :) Your chilli bean soup sounds lovely! What is canned tomato bisque? I make my own tomato soup when i grow my own tomatoes and use all the squashed and manky ones! (when OH is not looking!) Had no complaints so far LOL.
From Facebook
Congratulations, Alan, on TWO counts! First it looks like you are getting and enjoying the elusive Dunedin Osprey Cam. Second, Dunedin has used one of your captures. Brilliant.
Posting about Dunedin - We are trying this week to put an itinerary together to stay in Sarasota FL during the osprey season April/May. Dunedin a suburb of Clearwater is about 60 miles north and an excuse to play golf on Stirling Links and this place:-
Is 10 miles south. Now I wonder why it is called OSPREY.
Sanibel and Captiva my favourite spot for watching ospreys is about one and a half hours south from Sarasota.
NO DISNEY - we will leave that till later in the year.
Keith, Glad to see you & Susan are planning a trip to Florida. I know how much you always enjoy it there.
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June 10th, 2012
During June 2012 we suffered the worst summer storm in 100 years in mid-Wales; it devastated much of the wildlife as well as the BBC's efforts to film it for Springwatch.
We were also without recordings for over 24 hours until the ferocious weather calmed down just enough for our friends at Network Rail to step in and somehow reconnect us to mains electricity.
We were worried more about Monty and Nora - we had lost all hope of the remaining two chicks in the nest ever surviving, who were only a few days old. They hadn't eaten for almost two days, they should have perished.
On page 141 of 'Ospreys In Wales: The First Ten Years' it mentions a video. Immediately after the power was restored, the nest cameras came back to life and these were the very first images we saw of the nest after all that time in unprecedented rain and 80 mph winds.
Not only were Monty and Nora alive, somehow they had managed to keep these two alive also, an absolute miracle.
An hour late however, the weaker chick on the left had died - neither chick were strong enough to stand up, put their heads up and beg for food. It was only a matter of time before the guy on the right would go the same way.
He didn't. He survived and we all fell madly in love with him in ways we never thought possible. His name was Ceulan.
A double post here needs to be eliminated, so once again I'll post my favorite capture.We all rejoiced when the staff decided to "interfere with nature" to help the second chick. After their help, pictured here, Ceulan grew to become a lovely juvenile, He fledged and made it to winter quarters in Africa. Unfortunately he did not survive through his first year..